Sanjay Kumar, J.

1. The petitioner is the applicant in O.A. No. 2358 of 2016 on the file of the Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, Hyderabad (for brevity, ‘the Tribunal’). By order dated 24.06.2016, the Tribunal admitted the O.A. and while ordering notice to the respondents, directed that the final allocation of the petitioner to the State of Telangana would be subject to the final result in the O.A. Aggrieved by the denial of interim relief, the petitioner is before this Court. The petitioner was appointed as a Lecturer at Kurnool in Zone IV on 20.07.1992 and was thereafter transferred to Visakhapatnam in Zone I on her own request, as her husband was working at BHEL, Visakhapatnam. She thereupon took the last rank in terms of seniority in the cadre of Lecturers at Visakhapatnam. She was promoted as a Principal in September, 2012, basing upon her reduced seniority. After bifurcation of the erstwhile State of Andhra Pradesh, the authorities sought her option for allocation to one of the newly formed States. Guidelines in this regard were communicated vide G.O.Ms. No. 312 dated 30.10.2014. The total number of posts of Principals were 256, of which 140 were allotted to t